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Friday, May 2, 2014

Essie Fashion playground

I finally caught a bit of sun today so I'm showing you a manicure I'm just wearing on my nails. It was time for me to start swatching Essie Hide and go chic collection that I got on Beauty blog day this year. Excuse the slightly wonky nails but I'm trying to get them back into shape.

First off is Fashion playground, not really the first one I thought I would be swatching but it was the lucky one on my nails when the sun came out :D It's a mint green shade with some silver shimmer that is not too visible on the nails but you can see it's not completely creme in person.

Here it is on my nails in the shade, it's three coats with top coat. Formula is PIA as with the rest of the pastel shades in the nail polish world, you have to be really careful with the application and leave each coat to dry before applying the next one or you will be left dragging everything and with some massive bald spots. But if you are careful in three coats everything is evened out and perfectly opaque. On the bright side, Essie nail polishes dry really quickly and with some fast drying top coat you can manage to pull off this manicure and then it lasts quite a long time which is great.

Here it is in the sun, maybe you can see bit of the shimmer in this one. With Essie nail polishes you get 13,5 mL for around 75 kn. This spring collection is for now available in Muller stores, but I expect it to come to other places (dm primarily) soon. This is really not my color, but it goes really well with my skintone so I'm quite warming up to it (though I'll never ever admit how much I like it ^_^)

And here it's picture of the Essie brush, It's wide and slightly rounded on to, it spreads nail polish nicely and there is not a lot of clean up afterwards. So do you like Fashion playground? I hope the weather will let me swatch rest of the colors soon 'cause favorites are still on the way :D I have one other Essie swatch, so if you are interested here is After school boy blazer.